Based on the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, the film unfolds as the author’s alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Greta Gerwig’s take, the beloved story of the March sisters—four young women each determined to live life on her own terms—is both timeless and timely. With Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Laura Dern and Timothée Chalamet.

“It doesn’t just brim with life, it brims with ideas about happiness, economic realities, and what it means to push against or to hew to the expectations laid out for one’s gender.” —
Alison Willmore, New York Magazine/Vulture

“[T]his is a film in love with its characters’ passions, a rich and effortlessly vibrant examination of the four March “little women” and the ways… they’re practically bursting with the innocent it’s-happening-right-now joy of being young and alive.” —
Kenneth Turan, L.A. Times